To clarify... cups and endometreotis

[shelleb]

Apologies if there was an easier way of doing this, I'm still fairly new to LJ.

I just wanted to make clarify the recent post about menstrual cups and endometreotis.

I just noticed leitadlifi's post with the link to this website article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/ ( Read more... )

Comments

[elmoish]

oh shelleb, you've got me really interested in this topic now, i hadn't spotted it before...

the thing that strikes me about the whole thing is that prior to the petition the APT (for short) sent questionaires out to menstrual cup users and found some of them had endometriosis, therefore (in their eyes) cup causes endometriosis. However, if they had also sampled women using pads or tampons they might have found exactly the same results (or much worse) but they didn't.

This was just poor poor research packaged up nicely!

[lintilla]

Wow, really? That's... pathetic.

Was it published somewhere peer reviewed? Because if so... SAD!

[elmoish]

wait wait wait it gets better!

in the comment from APT they reference a case of a woman whose endometriosis symptoms were only relieved by total hysterectomy....
see: http://www.assocpharmtox.org/Images/Cup%20Ques%20Sum%20w%20refs.pdf

LIES!!!

this is the actual article referenced:
http://endometriosis.nichd.nih.gov/pdf/Spechler_etal_GyneObstJuly2003.pdf

Now, I'm not a gynaecologist, but I thought that laser laparoscopic removal of areas of endometriosis was different to total hysterectomy...

[lintilla]

...

Argh.

Also, the idea that the cup does not leak when full is fairly hilarious (at least from where I'm sitting).

[shelleb]

yeah I find it loses suction when full and I feel it happen and then have a limited time to get to the bathroom to avoid a big mess!